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Old 09-12-2005, 12:31 AM
KeysrSoze KeysrSoze is offline
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Default Re: traveling at the speed of light

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Answer: No. Less gravity actually makes for slower time.


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I'm not sure you're right depending on how you meant that statement. Actually an observer inside a gravity well will observe that time is apparently moving faster in a frame of reference farther out of the gravity well, and from outside looking in, time would appear to be moving slower deeper in the well. For instance, if two spaceships come across a blackhole, and one goes into orbit very close to its event horizon and then returns (assuming it wasnt crushed in the process, had the tremendous energy required to reach escape velocity, nit nit etc.), millions of years may seem to have passed on the outside while they were in, while for an observer on the second ship looking in, time would appear to have almost stopped on the first ship.
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